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Dior: vintage couture,

It's quite fitting that I put this illustration up on the day I'm going to a vintage fayre don't you think!! (more on that in the week though, providing I remember my camera!!)

I've been working on this for a while, on and off. I seen the dress in the harpers bazaar magazine and I couldn't resist drawing it, (you can view the original image here. Though the image in the magazine that I drew from showed the dress to be more orange than red? photo-trickery at it's best again, me thinks!!)

I spent quite sometime working on the shading and the vividness of the colours, I love the reddy-oranges. The green bodice should have looked more acid-ey!! I assumed by laying down a yellow with lime green over the top it would give the right effect, not so though. I do however love the colours not to mention the dress, can you imagine making this, Oh-my-Gosh!! and to think it's vintage Dior, it looked like it was made yesterday Be-auti-ful, I Love It!!

I Swear if I owned this I would wear it every day, which actually made me question my own style and design ability's. I love bright colours and do frequently wear them yet when I design and sew for myself I almost always stick to a cautious colour palette. Time to bust out the colours I think and let my inner tropical bird free!!!

This skirt was meant to have a center back zip along with side seam pockets. Instead I put the two together and combined the zip into the side seam pocket and thought I would share with you how I did it or basically winged it ;)

What You should Know First:
This is easier than it looks all you need to do is be able to insert an invisible zip.
The waist band was faced but I found it easier to attach the facing once the zip was in place.
This skirt also had lining but the lining fabric is treated as a single layer with the fashion fabric. Prep:
Prior to inserting the zip and pockets and treating the lining and fabric as one layer, I made sure both side seams were over-locked Construction Tips:These are by no means a definite way to do this, just the way I did it.
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1. Pocket pieces should be kept separate, which makes it easier to place on the the skirt.

2. Taking the one pocket piece (Ignore that I have two in the pic) I lined it up on the right side of the skirt, with the correspondin…